Capitol Newsletter: Destroy Evidence

5:44 PM,
May 21, 2014

Written by

Matt Pommer

Earlier this month U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa issued a preliminary injunction to stop a John Doe investigation into the 2012 recall-election activities of Walker and his conservative allies. Legal questions about the John Doe also are bubbling their way to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Randa's rulings were startling on two counts. First, it was a federal judge halting a local investigation. But the "wow!" factor came from Randa's order to local investigators to destroy the evidence they had collected. ...